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Brrrrrrrr. To provide Street Slope View coverage of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the geeks engineers at Google fitted a panoramic camera rig to a snowmobile so folks at home can experience the Olympic venues and Whistler-Blackcomb Mountain from the safety and comfort of their desk chairs:
This marketing-oriented promotional video with somewhat-grating background music explains how it was done:
To see the end result, pour yourself a cup of hot chocolate and start exploring.
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check out www.slopeviews.com/onsnow-beta for the next generation of Slope View!
Posted by: James Hay | 12 March 2010 at 05:25 PM